The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, has described as untrue, reports that some officials of the electoral body are helping the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) design an election rigging mechanism ahead of the 2012 polls through the biometric registration exercise.<\/p>\n
The Statesman newspaper reported last week that some top officials of the EC have been contracted by the NDC to assist them manipulate the biometric voters\u2019 register.<\/p>\n
The newspaper named Mr Amadu Sulley, who spoke at the NDC\u2019s retreat last month as one of the EC officials helping the majority party in the country with the rigging plot.<\/p>\n
The paper claimed that the NPP\u2019s Asokwa MP Maxwell Kofi Jumah detected the plot. The NDC has already denied conniving with the EC to rig the 2012 general elections.<\/p>\n
According to Dr. Afari-Gyan, EC officials did nothing wrong addressing the NDC officials on the biometric voters\u2019 register.<\/p>\n
He said the NPP benefited from such a gesture in the past and expressed surprise at the posture of the NPP this time round.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not true, it involves Mr. Sulley, I wasn\u2019t in the country at that time and the NDC wrote to the EC that they wanted someone to go and explain certain things to them,\u201d Afari-Gyan stated. \u201cMr Sulley has done some jobs for the NPP too and even they did not write to us. So I don\u2019t see why the same person who helped you when you needed his help should be vilified like this. \u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do this all the time, when a party does not understand some issues and they talk to us we can send a director to go and talk to them, but when they talk like this it makes it difficult for us when the parties need services. \u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, has described as untrue, reports that some officials of the electoral body are helping the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) design an election rigging mechanism ahead of the 2012 polls through the biometric registration exercise. The Statesman newspaper reported last week that some top officials of the EC have been contracted by the NDC to assist them manipulate the biometric voters\u2019 register<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n